Yixiao Song, linguist and computer scientist, defended her PhD dissertation on on August 25. The title of her thesis is “Advancing AI Factuality via Comprehensive Evaluation”. The committee consisted of Mohit Iyyer and Rajesh Bhatt (advisors), Scott Yih, Negin Rahimi and Brendan O’Connor.

Yixiao begain her studies at UMass in the Linguistics Department and has an honorary picture with the fish. Big congratulations Yixiao!!